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English Terms

STORY ELEMENTS

Question: The people, animals or creatures in a story
Answer: What are characters?

Question: The time and place in a story
Answer: What is the setting?

Question: The problem or struggle in a story
Answer: What is the conflict?

Question: The events or action in a story
Answer: What is the plot?

Question: The main character or hero/heroine of a story
Answer: What is the protagonist?

POETRY TERMS

Question: When words sound alike in a poem, especially at the end of lines
Answer: What is rhyme?

Question: A division or section of a poem
Answer: What is a stanza?

Question: The rhythm or pattern of syllables in a poem
Answer: What is meter?

Question: Repetition of beginning sounds in a line of poetry
Answer: What is alliteration?

Question: "a-a-b-a, b-b-c-b, c-c-d-c" is an example of this in poetry
Answer: What is rhyme scheme?

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

Question: A comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as"
Answer: What is a simile?

Question: Extreme exaggeration
Answer: What is hyperbole?

Question: A direct comparison between 2 unlike things: George is such a lemming.
Answer: What is a metaphor?

Question: A phrase to describe that is NOT taken literally
Answer: What is an idiom?

Question: Description using sight, sound, smell, touch, taste
Answer: What are sensory details?

AUTHOR'S CRAFT

Question: When an author interrupts a story to tell something that happened before
Answer: What is a flashback?

Question: A brief story in an introduction to illustrate a point
Answer: What is an anecdote?

Question: Hints or clues of something to come in the story
Answer: What is foreshadowing?

Question: Using an object to represent an idea
Answer: What is symbolism or a symbol?

Question: Using words/phrases that mean the opposite of what you really want to say, in order to insult someone or to be funny
Answer: What is sarcasm?

EXAMPLES OF ...

Question: HISS, THUD, SQUEAK
Answer: What are some examples of onomatopoeia?

Question: Jumbo shrimp, old news, bittersweet
Answer: What are some examples of oxymorons?

Question: We need to work together because we're all in the same boat.
Answer: What is an example of an idiom?

Question: The blazing fire swallowed the forest of evergreens.
Answer: What is an example of personification?

Question: The experienced lifeguard drowned in the wading pool yesterday.
Answer: What is an example of irony?